Month: March 2016
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Rainfall Manipulation Experiment at SMER
We are in the 4th year of an NSF-funded rainfall manipulation experiment at Santa Margarita Ecological Reserve, part of SDSU’s Field Station Program. The experiment is investigation the interactive effects of plant functional type (native shrubs vs. exotic annual species) and altered rainfall. This is a collaboration with Dr. Elsa Cleland at UCSD. Our lab…
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Ars Bioarctica
In late winter 2016, I traveled to Finland for my sabbatical. This included a Science-Art Residency program (with the incomparable artist, Kim Reasor) at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Field Station, up in Finnish Lapland at 69 degrees north, involving the microbiology (and art!) of snow and ice. I took the snow, ice and lake water samples…